Welcome to the Alabama Regional Competition!

We would like to thank each and every one of you for visiting our site. This is the 18th year that Alabama has competed in the Future City Program and we are eager to get started on another great year! Alabama's mission is to provide quality extracurricular activities to middle school students who are interested in math, science and engineering fields. We are dedicated to fostering interest for future careers in engineering.

The Alabama Regional Future City Competition is a state-wide, project-based learning experience where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade imagine, design, and build cities of the future. Students work as a team with an educator and engineer mentor to plan cities using SimCity™ software; research and write solutions to an engineering problem; build tabletop scale models with recycled materials; and present their ideas before judges annually at the Regional Competition.

The Alabama Regional Competition will be held on Saturday, January 19th, 2019 from 7:30am – 5:00pm at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in the Davidson Center – Saturn V Hall. Each year a new theme is developed to test the competitors' problem-solving skills. The teams are encouraged to design futuristic cities that revolve around that theme and hopefully their citizens thrive within these cities.

The Alabama Regional Coordinator will be in attendance at the annual Regional Coordinator's Retreat this Spring in Columbus, Ohio from April 27 - 29th, 2018. For those of you who are new to Future City, the retreat is the annual event where representatives from Future City Regions (Regional Coordinators or Committee Members) meet to discuss issues, vote on rules changes, share best practices and new ideas about the program. During these meetings, they will also finalize descriptions for this year's theme and requirements for the 2018 - 2019 Future City Competition Season, so stay tuned!…

This is the spot for all your news & updates. Students and Teachers can send in their team news or challenges to other schools. The Regional Coordinator will also post any updates to the project here, so stay tuned!